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apt

The
apt tool provides a facility for programmatically
processing the annotations added to Java by
JSR 175,
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Facility for the JavaTMProgramming
Language. In brief, JSR 175 allows programmers to declare new kinds
of structured modifiers that can be associated with program elements,
fields, methods, classes, etc.

The
apt tool generates the portable artifacts used in
JAX-WS services.

wsimport

The
wsimport tool generates JAX-WS portable
artifacts used in JAX-WS clients and
services. The tool reads a WSDL and
generates all the required artifacts for web service development,
deployment, and invocation.